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user-interfacewindows-runtimeuwpwindows-10
JuP
JuP

Reputation: 535

Navigation - SplitView or Pivot

I'd like to ask you, what do you think, which control is better for navigation. What I mean? Now I have Pivot control with 2 PivotItems. One of them is named Contacts. This PivotItem contains Frame. And the frame makes new navigation on page with contacts (listview). Why Frame? When I click on some contact I need to show details of current contact. But I need to display it inside PivotItem, therefore I use inner frame. So I can still see main view and other pivot items. I think, that pivot is not right control for it. Or I should show contact details for whole screen, not only in pivotitem.

FrameA and FrameB. FrameA has navigated from Main to Page1. Page1 has a Pivot that hosts FrameB in PivotItem1 and FrameB has navigated from View1 to View 2 and from View2 to View 3

Upvotes: 0

Views: 99

Answers (1)

Bart
Bart

Reputation: 10015

I suggest you start reading up on navigation basics for Windows 10 and look at some other apps how they do it.

You could use a navigation pane (which is mostly done using a SplitView), in which you show your contacts grid in the main panel and navigate to a single contact when clicking on it. The other item in your navigation pane would be the title for your 2nd pivot tab.

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If you want to keep your contact list visibile at all time and show the details of a single contact next to it, the alternative is using master-detail. Either on a full screen, or by placing the master detail on the main panel of your SpltView.

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You can find a master-detail control in the UWP Community Toolkit.

Upvotes: 0

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